Social and cognitive factors driving teamwork in collaborative learning environments: Team learning beliefs and behaviors

Small Group Research

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 490-521

  Van Den Bossche, Piet ^a,d   Gijselaers, Wim H ^a   Segers, Mien ^b   Kirschner, Paul A ^c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Collaborative learning; Mutually shared cognition; Sociocognitive processes; Team learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747872544     PISSN: 10464964     EISSN: 15528278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1046496406292938     Document Type: Article

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